Abstract
The presented method describes reflection and transmission of
electromagnetic waves at multiple closely stacked metal grids using
multi-modal S-parameter propagation. For that, the surface admittance of
every metal layer was determined, through a novel semi-analytic approach
that uses simple Fourier transformations instead of solving an integral
equation. The modal components of this surface admittance were used to
express the generalized scattering matrices of the individual grids. By
applying multi-modal propagation techniques to the resulting scattering
parameters, it was possible to model the electromagnetic interactions
within a multilayer stack of periodic impedance sheets. Resulting
reflection and transmission parameters perfectly matched the
corresponding full-wave simulations even above the grating lobe regime.
In the end, the universality of the proposed method was proven on a
layer stack, connected to lumped components.